Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
Giuseppe Porta (Italian, c. 1520–c. 1575)
1562/64
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Between 1562 and 1566, Salviati was in Rome working on a commission for two large frescoes in the Sala Regia, a formal reception hall in the Vatican. This sheet is a single-figure study for the first of these, which depicts the peace treaty that Pope Alexander III and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa reached in Venice in 1177. The corresponding painted figure can be seen in the large crowd at right in the fresco.
An example of the artist’s mature draftsmanship, the drawing demonstrates a range of techniques, from the carefully modeled face and the crumpled pleats of the sleeve to the delicate black chalk of the figure’s beard.
- Medium
- Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper
- Original size
- 20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 5 exhibitions
Provenance
- Baron Jan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 22, 1847, lot 147 (as Paolo Veronese), to Roos for Gerard Leembruggen Jzn.; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 5–10, 1886, lot 896 (as Paolo Veronese) to John Malcolm, 1st Baron of Poltalloch (1805–1893); to his son-in-law, Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (1845–1918); by descent to Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy (1878–1972); by descent to Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973); sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 28, 1976, lot 11.
- Private collection, Switzerland; sold, Christie's London, July 9, 2002, lot.
- C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, 2003; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibitions
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953 (as Federico Zuccaro).
- Edinburgh, Merchants' Hall, Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969 (anon. North Italian artist).
- London, Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971–72 (as Giuseppe Salviati).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, GC 13, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
